Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal calls on the government to take action to stop global warming, and says that climate change, pollution and environmental destruction have “exacerbated systemic racial, regional, social, environmental, and economic injustices”.

The proposed bill has gained the support of dozens of politicians, including Democratic presidential candidates Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar.

But the plan has also been criticised by figures who say it is unaffordable and unrealistic, while President Trump has said (incorrectly, of course) that it would eliminate all “Planes, Cars, Cows, Oil, Gas & the Military”.

At the New York event, held by Girls Who Code, Ocasio-Cortez hit out at these critics, and reminded the audience of the power of trying.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has an important message about feeling like a failure